The Potential for Joint Farming Ventures in Irish Agriculture: A Sociological Review

Cush Peter () and Macken-Walsh Áine ()
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Cush Peter: Dr Peter Cush, Dr Áine Macken-Walsh, Teagasc Rural Economy and Development Programme (REDP), Athenry, Co. Galway, Ireland;
Macken-Walsh Áine: Dr Peter Cush, Dr Áine Macken-Walsh, Teagasc Rural Economy and Development Programme (REDP), Athenry, Co. Galway, Ireland;

European Countryside, 2016, vol. 8, issue 1, 33-48

Abstract: Joint farming ventures (JFVs) are promoted within Irish and EU policy discourses as strategies that can enhance the economic and social sustainability of family farming. Research has shown that JFVs, including arrangements such as farm partnerships, contract rearing and share farming, can potentially enable farmers to work cooperatively to improve farm productivity, reduce working hours, facilitate succession, develop skills and improve relationships within the farm household. In the context of increasing policy promotion of JFVs, there is a need to make some attempt at understanding the macro socio-cultural disposition of family farming to cooperation. Reviewing sociological studies of agricultural cooperation and taking a specific focus on the Irish contextual backdrop, this paper draws the reader’s attention to the importance of historical legacy, pragmatic economic and social concerns, communicative norms, inter-personal relationships, individualism and, policy and extension stimuli, all of which shape farmers’ dispositions to cooperation and to JFVs specifically.

Keywords: Joint Farm Ventures; Cooperation; Irish agriculture; Resilience; Family Farming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1515/euco-2016-0003

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